'The trees are my grandparents': the Ecuador tribe trying to save its culture
by Lianne Kolirin from Environment | The Guardian on (#52775)
Deforestation and climate change threaten the Achuar people's existence - but a genealogy site is trying to protect its future
The Amazon rainforest has been home to the Achuar people for thousands of years. Skilled hunters and fishermen, they have a spiritual connection with nature and consider themselves the forest's greatest protectors.
Life is governed by their ancestors, with family history passed down orally from generation to generation. Yet traditions are being undermined as the young are tempted away by modernity, while their fragile ecosystem faces man-made destruction.
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